Baseball games have often turned violent when a player is hit by an opposing pitcher. But few games ever feature a player with a bat swinging for the skull of that pitcher. A game in Cuba Monday night featured exactly that.

A man is in the hospital in critical condition after a Miami-Dade police officer stopped a man about what he was carrying, then shot the man when he reached for it. Police said the 3-year veteran of the department shot a man carrying a baseball bat in his belt.

An Oakland Park wedding planner is out on bond after she allegedly helped her teenaged daughter attack another teen with a baseball bat, stab her with a knife, and for good measure, allegedly slam the victim’s 8 week old puppy to the ground.